MANILA, Philippines — Criminal gangs running online scam farms in the Philippines are downsizing in a change of tactics to avoid a sweeping crackdown, officials said Tuesday.
President Ferdinand Marcos in July announced a total ban by end-2024 on so-called Philippine online gaming operators that Manila says were being used as cover by organized crime for human trafficking, money laundering, online fraud, kidnappings and even murder.Justice Undersecretary Felix Nicholas Ty said government raids were ongoing as scammers continue to traffic foreign and local workers, forcing them to pitch clients around the world on fake investment schemes.
' Ty said that while there were signs 'that their resources are in decline,' the scam operators 'remain entrenched,' and it would be 'unrealistic for us to get them all' due to limited government resources and manpower.Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, is 'ground zero for the global scamming industry,' the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's deputy regional representative Benedikt Hofmann told UN News earlier this year.
Farms Change Tactics To Avoid Philippine Crackdown
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